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Field Security Specialist (Cyber Security Solutions Engineer)

San Francisco (Remote)$335k–$352kfulltimemidAdded yesterday

About this role

OpenAI seeks a Field Security Specialist to bridge enterprise cybersecurity leaders and hands-on practitioners, guiding them on applying AI models to real-world security workflows. You'll lead discovery, design pilots, deliver demos, and build reusable assets that help customers safely adopt AI in high-stakes security environments across AppSec, vulnerability management, SOC, detection engineering, and more.

What you'll do

  • Lead cyber workflow discovery and requirements gathering across application security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC, detection engineering, and cloud security domains
  • Build and deliver customer-facing demos, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures for AI-enabled security workflows
  • Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, integrations, safety boundaries, and approval gates
  • Advise customers on secure implementation patterns including tool calling, structured outputs, sandboxing, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls
  • Create and maintain reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, qualification guides, and competitive positioning materials
  • Translate customer feedback and blockers back to Product, Engineering, Security, and GTM teams to inform roadmap priorities

What they're looking for

  • Deep practitioner experience in cybersecurity domains (AppSec, cloud security, vulnerability management, incident response, detection engineering)
  • Customer-facing advisory or solutions engineering experience
  • Ability to build demos and prototypes using APIs, code, agents, CI/CD systems, and security tooling
  • AI workflow design including retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop patterns
  • Pilot scoping and success metrics definition
  • Executive and practitioner communication skills
  • Evidence-based judgment and technical validation skills
  • Integration and architecture knowledge across common security tools and platforms
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OpenAI

OpenAI builds AI infrastructure and products, including large-scale data center campuses for AI computing and generative AI applications for enterprise customers. The company is hiring civil engineers, project engineers, electrical design engineers, data center R&D engineers, and AI deployment engineers to expand its infrastructure capabilities and help customers deploy AI solutions.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a recent customer engagement where you translated a security challenge into an AI-powered workflow—what made it successful or difficult?
  • Describe a time you had to balance technical depth with executive-level messaging. How did you adjust your approach for different audiences?